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Squid is a proxy service for HTTP and other requests. This article covers installing it and configuring it to run on Ubuntu as a transparent proxy. This documentation includes configuring Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD) via DHCP and DNS.

I run a heterogeneous configuration. This provided a number of challenges as various implementations of WPAD were encountered. These each seem to require something different. The final configuration works for Ubuntu, Windows X/P, and Windows Vista. Both Internet Explorer and Firefox configured correctly. Continue reading →